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Ministerial aide quits over Northern Irish backstop

Saturday, 8 December 2018 (2 weeks ago)Colchester MP Will Quince urged the Prime Minister to return to Brussels and renegotiate the deal to remove the Northern Irish backstop which he said made it impossible for him to support the proposal.

According to Reuters, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she was listening to lawmakers’ concerns about the so-called Northern Irish backstop arrangements in the Brexit deal to try to find a way forward. May said “I believe that the deal we have negotiated is a good deal. I...

According to Reuters, British Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said that Prime Minister Theresa May was working to secure legal and political assurances over the so-called Irish backstop in her Brexit..

Prime Minister Theresa May said after meeting top European officials on Tuesday that there is a "shared determination" to address issues around the insurance policy known as the backstop, designed to..

According to Reuters, a spokesman for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party said on Wednesday that the British government has broken its promises to the DUP and put pressure on the arrangement..